Trump Takes to Twitter to Defend His China Tariffs
Matt Rourke/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on $200 billion worth of imported Chinese goods has been widely unpopular. Even so, on Wednesday, Trump decided to up the ante: He ordered his administration to consider raising the rate from 10 percent to 25…
Justice Clarence Thomas Is Having an Outsize Influence on the Trump Administration
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas smiles during an event at the Library of Congress, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, in Washington. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is by far the court’s quietest and most conservative justice. He went 10 years without asking a…
For Someone Who Claims to Not Watch CNN, Trump Seems to Watch a Lot of It
LeBron James listens to a question at a news conference after the opening ceremony for the I Promise School in Akron, Ohio, Monday, July 30, 2018. The I Promise School is supported by the The LeBron James Family Foundation and is run by the Akron Public Schools. Phil Long/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe…
The Trump Administration Just Launched a “Brazen Attack” on Clean Air Standards
The demands showed a marked shift from 2012, when automakers, two of which had just received massive taxpayer-funded federal bailouts, agreed to increase standards after months of negotiations with federal and California regulators. But by 2016, fuel prices had fallen from a record high national average of $3.60 per gallon four years earlier, and Americans…
No, Ivanka Trump Did Not Break With Her Dad’s Family Separation Policy
Liu Jie/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Following months of tension and creating frustration both in the White House and the media, Ivanka Trump has signaled she is ready to return to the public stage as first daughter and senior adviser to the president. But her most recent attempt to step back into the…
“Collusion Is Not a Crime” Becomes Trump’s Official New Line of Defense
Mark Wilson/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump echoed his lawyer’s questionable assertion that “collusion is not a crime” on Tuesday morning, officially ushering in a new line of defense against the special counsel investigation into his campaign and its links to Russian nationals and officials. For good measure, Trump continued…